A protein tied to ALS and dementia may have a much bigger role in disease than scientists realized. Researchers found that ...

When e-cigarettes first appeared around 2010, they were hailed as a breakthrough: nicotine delivery without the toxic tar and combustion byproducts of traditional cigarettes. Public health bodies ...

According to health experts, alcohol consumption not only raises the risk of developing cancers, but may also increase the ...

By Barry Porterfield | [email protected] A court hearing has offered a few more details about a damaging Garvin County break-in from a couple of years ago. Testimony from two Garvin County ...

That first cigarette can lead to a lifetime of dependency, as well as cancer, strokes, heart attacks … Here’s why smokers crave their nicotine hit – and how they can fight back ...

Public health bodies once cautiously endorsed vapes as a tool for smokers to quit. More than a decade later, the picture is less clear ...

Perhaps the most urgent concern is what has happened among young people. The World Health Organisation now describes e-cigarettes as "harmful and not safe" warning of a new wave of nicotine addiction ...

The team also uncovered a distinct pattern of DNA damage, known as SBS17, which was absent in healthy stomach tissue but commonly found in intestinal metaplasia. SBS17 is linked to oxidative stress—a ...

Extensive toxicological and epidemiological research has shown that these carcinogens cause DNA damage, mutational signatures ...

Smoking or living with cigarette smoke can accelerate age-related degeneration of the eyes, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine found, and it hurts young eyes more. “Smoking is often assumed ...

A leading North East GP has warned of the risk caused by drinking and smoking and how this can combine to cause a worrying form of a cancer. Dr David Cummins, who practises in Whitley Bay and ...

New research shows smoking changes how key eye cells control genes, helping explain why smokers face a much higher risk of ...